tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post652411556435982534..comments2024-03-29T08:31:38.748+00:00Comments on Steve Does Comics: Dynamic Tension injures ninjas in beach front barneys? Alas Charles Atlas, I knew him not? "You too could have a body like mine?" I already do - but then you have been dead for forty yearsSteve W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-67397702615962475542012-06-30T12:10:53.818+01:002012-06-30T12:10:53.818+01:00tsfcharles atlas was born in 1893 and
die 1972, so...tsfcharles atlas was born in 1893 and<br />die 1972, so was 79 not 80.despite<br />as many claim that he work of with weight, he could not becouse they never been found in hes homes or anywhere by over 50 years.Unless he sneak out in middle of night under brooklyn bridge.In his home in florida when was 70 few years old,house was open to everybody and there was no wieghts, when he still was in top shape anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-79523859693583585682011-08-21T17:33:29.673+01:002011-08-21T17:33:29.673+01:00Although he wasn't born Charles Atlas, it beca...Although he wasn't born Charles Atlas, it became his legal name when he changed it by Deed Poll (or whatever the US equivalent is) while he was still a young man.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-73724559620816528412011-06-16T21:34:56.907+01:002011-06-16T21:34:56.907+01:00I only discovered Charles Atlas was dead when some...I only discovered Charles Atlas was dead when someone made reference to it in an edition of Esther Rantzen's <i>That's Life</i> one Sunday evening in the late 1970s. Up until then, although I'd realised it was an old photo in all those ads, I hadn't appreciated just how old.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-64122848433169171252011-06-16T01:45:50.899+01:002011-06-16T01:45:50.899+01:00I remember seeing these adverts in the comics in t...I remember seeing these adverts in the comics in the '70s and figuring that Charles Atlas must be a 30-something body builder roughly contemporaneous with the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger. It wasn't until decades later that I learned that Atlas was born in 1892 and was already dead at age 80 by the time I was only 3! Considering the number of years these silly adverts have run, they've certainly gotten great mileage out of his youthful image.R. W. Watkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14660716315419914578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-84027954795937318912011-06-15T23:11:18.558+01:002011-06-15T23:11:18.558+01:00"He'll do press-ups,
and chin-ups,
do t..."He'll do press-ups, <br />and chin-ups, <br />do the snatch, clean and jerk.<br />He think's Dynamic Tension, must be hard work!"<br /><br />Frank N Furter, from the Rocky Horror Show, singing 'The Charles Atlas Song' (before they changed the title, presumably due to the old lawsuit thing)!Boston Billnoreply@blogger.com